Bonds of souls

Demon Valley

At the end of the day, she manages to follow the group to the Demonic Valley because her family members didn't care where she was and what she was doing, thus ensuring that the young princess was able to go where she wanted and unlike her sister, she didn't had an escort.

For many it could be bad, but for the young woman it was good because it was thanks to not having an escort that she was able to meet her shifu, the first person who cared about her and took care of her. They were the happiest years of her life and they were cut short on that fateful day.

The friendship of Lin Haoqing, Ru Jun, Luo Jinsang and Qu Xiaoxing was what gave him the strength to carry on living. They were the pillar that supported it.

However, that column was cracked and was on the verge of collapsing from overwhelming guilt towards Chang Yi.

The princess comes out of her thoughts after sighing as she accompanied the entourage inside the royal palanquin, which stood out from any others used by other nobles or rich people and with an outfit worthy of the nobility made of very expensive fabric when it was washed and then dressed by servants on orders from the queen after a shower of flower petals, with her wearing high-status jewelry that came from her mother and that were lent to the young woman, in addition to being accompanied by an escort selected only for that one-way trip and then, from return to the capital. This was all part of the kings demands upon learning her fate because appearance was everything to them.

After all, as disadvantaged as she was within the royal family, her status was not supposed to be public knowledge and the few who did know within the palace complex were effectively kept silent for fear that something would happen to their family members.

A-Ji hated all of that and hated those jewels, in addition to the clothes that were so different from those she wore in her day-to-day life and when she explored the capital city, which was something common when she wasn't studying or hanging out with her only friends. who managed regular departures from Devil's Valley.

Even when she left the room with those clothes and jewelry, the quartet of friends were astonished because they had never seen her so elegant and with an aristocratic air at the same time that they knew that she was hating everything because it was visible in her eyes, with all of them knowing it was against her will.

The princess felt sorry for her friends who were forced to go in the lead group because two of them were the biological sons of Lin Canglan, current Leader of Demonic Valley while the other two were disciples of the brothers.

Leading the retinue was his sister's eunuch official and doormat, Zhang, while Zhu Ling, leader of Shuang Tower and head of the palace guard, accompanied them, with Ling's longtime friend, Ji Chengyu, beside him. Ning Qing's most powerful disciple and the only one in the entourage who showed A-ji a kind smile and warm eyes, and greeted her the same way he would greet any member of royalty.

Then her eyes focus on her friend Ru Jun and A-ji always wondered why looking at him was like looking at his deceased martial arts shifu.

After all, the gentle countenance and warm eyes along with some gestures reminded her of him. The voice was also another factor that evoked her memories and she could have sworn they were the same, with the difference that this was a younger version of the voice.

Furthermore, the first time she met him along with his brother and his disciples, for some reason foreign to her, the girl felt that she had met him before. It was a surprising and equally disconcerting feeling.

Then, the princess comes out of her thoughts and as she watched the group approaching the barrier of the demonic Valley that prevented any demon from leaving the valley if there wasn't a demon master voluntarily opening the passage, the young woman begins to plan a way of being able to return the jiaoren to the ocean despite the enormous distance they were.